Marcy Kaptur: “I want to thank Congressman Garamendi for bringing us all together this evening, Congresswoman Jackson Lee, Congressman…”

“I want to thank Congressman Garamendi for bringing us all together this evening, Congresswoman Jackson Lee, Congressman Honda-- those who are here and are serious about trying to rectify what happened last night with the GOP shutdown of our departments of the Federal Government. How very irresponsible, how reckless, how it puts our economy at risk to put politics ahead of the national interests, and so, so unnecessary. {time} 2030 I stand here this evening as a member of the Appropriations Committee, the committee and the Constitution that is responsible for operating and providing the funding for the Departments of our government: the Department of Transportation, the Department of Defense, the Department of Education. You can go across the Departments. As of the end of September, we're supposed to have the budgets passed for each of those Departments for fiscal year 2014. That officially began last night at midnight. At the moment, those 12 bills have not been passed. The Republicans are holding them hostage for their efforts to try to contort the legislative process to change the law, to change the Affordable Care Act because they don't like parts of it. Actually, that is a tangential issue.…”